A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. Witness. The judge in this case did once back in may accused special counsel of reaching with these charges and using financial obligations to pressure Paul Manafort into spilling secrets i could have hurt the president. He seemed at the time to be challenging the scope of the special counsels mission since these charges have nothing to do with alleged election interference, but he allowed the child to go on anyway. So fastforward to today, jurors just heard that all the 18 charges against Paul Manafort are financial including allegations of filing false tax returns, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit tax fraud. They allege that minna fort never the irs about 60 million he was paid that were backed by russia for lobbying work and consulting that he did long before he was ever associated with the Trump Campaign. Manafort was initially brought on board with the trump team because he had experience with a contested convention and there was a possibility of that happening in cleveland in 2016, he never did but he later served
if he was of the president s campaign manager, in likelihood, he wouldnt be facing these charges. Melissa it if he didnt break the law. That came first. Right, potentially . Jessica lawrence is absolutely correct, goes beyond in the washington scene where you know that Paul Manafort has had unsavory dealings for many decades. Certainly flies in the face of the president that he only hires the best people only for a few days or a couple of months here in this case. Melissa how would you know if its beyond washington . Jessica you can google it. If youre doing any normal Background Check and you google Paul Manafort, a lot of things come up about his dealings in that part of the world, this is something i would say the most obvious mistake that they made. Lawrence was brought on because i thought it was going to be a broken kind of a stomach convention. Has a lot of specialties. One broken convention. Harris the point of heard others make it as an interesting
point is in the throes of a campaign, as is what happens when everybody doesnt get that . And its tough because you had someone who was nontraditionally politician, right . And thats what people love about donald trump and loved about him as a candidate. So i dont think we should be too shocked with regard to the vetting that didnt happen and a lot of what is out there about Paul Manafort was not clandestine. But it is part of that process. Lawrence didnt take much vetting to know that Paul Manafort. Harris and you have to vet and know that there would be adjudication. It was more than just that. Katie the bottom line is whats happening to Paul Manafort has nothing to do with the 2,016 president ial election at all aside from the fact that he was the chairman of the Trump Campaign the way he is being charged with, what jurors are hearing about him has nothing to do with racial collusion, it has everything to do with Paul Manaforts Business Dealings and
lets not forget, this is been going back decades. If that is not something that is new. If the feds been looking a Paul Manafort long time. He would have been facing the music at some point, just so happens the special counsel got their hands on a lot of the information, charged him with a series of felonies and put the nails in the coffin for him. He could have been facing these charges eventually based on the fact that theyve been looking at him going back to 2006 at least. Harris who has the president s back . Thats my question. You see this constellation of players around and just because talking about it now, people who hes hired and you go why did you hire that person . Why did you hire this person . Katie is and he in charge of hiring people . Harris hes in the throes of the campaign, now he has a team to look out for him and i just asked that question as we see the situation with Michael Cohen. Come on. Shady dude, come on. Melissa Let Me Be The Devils Advocate here because youre looking at now to shady
fact of them potentially using this to go after the president. Thats what i dont like. Im not saying this guy is an shady. But thats wrong. That system wasnt designed where you leverage to go after when you have no evidence of collusion with the president s, you didnt try to put pressure on this guy for a crime. Katie my question on that is, yes, that that way the system works but in order for Paul Manafort to be used against the president , there would have to be there. And at this point, we havent seen every evidence that theres any crime for any member of the Trump Administration or campaign in terms of collusion with the russians. Jessica and other a lot of people who say we want is to speed up, we want to know what he has and we want to come to a collusion because its ripping up the country, although every other Investment Patient before had destroying the country. Paul manaforts lawyer was clear today that he would not be cooperating. We will see how the next three
weeks ago, things can change especially when you are facing charges of this level. I dont think Michael Cohen came into any of this saying that he might be someone who flipped and now with each day in every new piece that landed. Harris he has recordings if he wanted to. Jessica i dont think we can say that definitively. The president is on twitter today playing a word game about what collusion is in conspiracy. Katie what has been named down with a special counsel has charge people with so at the moment, we have no charges for any Trump Administration officials that have to do with collusion with the russians. Jessica we also dont have all the information. Harris this is the first that we have seen the necessity with the taxes, so on and so forth. This is an initially supposed to be about any of that russian collusion investigation anyway theres more to come. Jessica we got rick gates who now according to Michael Cohen was present when
don jr. Was talking about it. Rick gates is going to be key here. Worked with Paul Manafort for a very long time. So theres a lot more that we dont, that may be fine but i dont know if he just worked with him on the stuff and he was in the room when don jr. Was saying i got an email from a kremlin lawyer. Lawrence i think thats speculation and americans are getting tired of it. Harris President Trump is warning lawmakers again that he is willing to shut down the government if lawmakers want step up for funding with the wall and Border Security so will it shutdown happen and how the fight affect the midterms . Plus controversy across the country as some mayors are siding with Apologize Protesters over law enforcement. Whether that is a good move or if they will face backlash, we debate. High protein
switch and you could save 782 on home and auto insurance. Call for a free quote today. Liberty mutual insurance. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Border security funding. Here it is. If we dont get Border Security after many, many years of talk within the United States, i would have no problem doing the shutdown. Its time we had proper Border Security. We had the laughingstock of the world, we have the worst Immigration Laws anywhere in the world. Harris the government funding deadline comes just weeks before the midterm elections as you know in Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has dismissed talk of a Government Shutdown saying that there are no plans to go down that road. Chairman of the Senate Committee on appropriation of Richard Shelby said that republicans and democrats are working together on a solution. We ought to protect our borders, we have to do everything in the world and in the meantime, im going to work in a bipartisan way. Weve made more progress in the last several weeks and we have
in a couple dozen years. None of us want to shut down the government. Democrats, no one wins. Harris we are going to have an opera moment together. Did you see the president just get the democrats and republicans to Work Together . Lawrence im not sure theyre going to Work Together. I dont think so. Nothing is going to happen. So im with the president , shut down the government. Im totally for it. Were going to get blamed regardless. Seriously, were going to get blamed whether the government gets shut down or not. Harris it didnt go well for Chuck Schumer to do that for the democrats over immigration and the daca program. Lawrence this president when an election on this issue of immigration, he talked about this. So i think the democrats have gone so far left when it comes to talking about defunding ice, getting rid of ice, this is an issue that the president can actually win, he doesnt. Harris have to ask why it hasnt happened until now. Why is and he . What has and gun forward . They do this is a government that has satisfied sitting around doing nothing and they have really grown to this position where it feels comfortable to sit on the couch and not do anything and you have to give them an exploding deadline and if you think the government stinks my shutting it down doesnt sound like a bad idea. So trump is not going to lose any Popularity Points by shutting down the government. Both the republicans in the democrats who are in a swamp together will both lose support and cachet by doing this so he has really put them in a corner. It will hurt all of you and not me. Harris is there any room for optimism . Lawrence doesnt think they will Work Together. Lawrence once you shut it down, then the Work Together. Katie the house has been working on legislation now obviously back to the senate which is where they usually have the problems, but the president is frustrated just like the
american people have been after decades and decades of crisis after crisis including the most current one, being completely ignored. You talk about them getting comfortable in d. C. , we talk about the swamp becoming the jacuzzi, the hot tub, sitting around, hanging out. Doing nothing. So the bottom line is, the president did run on us to get elected in 2016. It is a base issue but also an independent issue and leading up until now, we had this immediate crisis happening right now, i was listening to it Senate Judiciary committee on the board of crisis happening today and congress has no solutions to fix it and just want to continue down the road with the same resolutions. Harris grow quickly before we get to jessica, the wall street journals entire editorial board, heres what they have to say. They lose the House Of Representatives is november . If that seems like an odd question, consider that mr. Trump is running a Campaign Strategy that puts the house at maximum risk while focusing on the senate. The latest evidence is in their words, mr. Trump threat to shut down the government in september if he doesnt get money for his border wall. Again, the wall street Journal Editorial Board just this week. Jessica, what is the take on this from democrats . To they come to the table and you begin to see that moment where they work with republicans on this issue if the government shuts down . Jessica i feel democrats feel like they have worked with republicans on this issue since they offered President Trump border wall funding. No one will keep the government shut down but lawrence is completely correct with what he led with. Republicans are going to get the blame no matter what and thats just the way that shutdowns have gone at least in the last five to six years. The schumer shut down i dont think besides people who know that phrase, i dont think everyone remembers that, it was 13 hours. Right now, we are talking about. Harris held it against nancy pelosi when they saw her on the lectern. Its funny how we forget that. Jessica it was senator schumers fall, member of that as they go to the polls but at the end of the day, you are daca and right now talking about separating children from their families, talk about the Detention Centers and we know that not all of those, and that issue is much more important and it affects more people personally and emotionally then the daca issue did say you had more republicans up in arms about their kids. Lawrence because if we have an honest conversation about this, a lot of democrats want open borders, they really do. And that is what is going to fail miserably with americans, they know that because now your leader has said that ocasiocortez is a new phase of the Democratic Party and thats what they want, they want to shut down ice. We will talk about later and they want open borders and thats not a winning issue with american people. Jessica it is in anton perez talking about her victory in which a representative in which you can do for the party does not make for the new phase of the party. That doesnt work, theyre only 42 reading a nationwide, the idea that our platform will be open borders and abolish ice is patently ridiculous. And thats not whats going on here. Harris you just call it the way you see it. She doesnt represent and what your policies are. As a minority of it hijacks your party . Jessica is not going to come a lot of people would argue that how he pushed the platform to the left. He certainly does have a lot of followers. Harris the Burning Sands were flying in the wind. Katie that is not a minority policy within the Democratic Party. Jessica where that anywhere in our platform . Katie you guys to vote against Catch And Release policies, against border funding, of course your open borders policies extend. Jessica didnt they propose 40 when billions for
dont we have democrats all over the country saying that we get effects for dhaka and can deal with these kids have been separated for their kids and give you the money that you are asking for . Am i hallucinating all of that . Harris of course, he is in california so theyre touching on these issues. He told me yesterday, he thinks there is only four with all of this. He acknowledges that the wall was there in 2006, so they can do that again. Some of these other issues are the ones where he thinks they can come in the middle. Itll be interesting. The president may be right, he may have to shut down the government just to bring people together and from what im hearing you say, what if they dont sit down . Lawrence the president is involved on the issue, its a portable system now. Hes not going to get a big fancy wall. Harris that does affect people but its got to go on for a while before shut down does so hopefully everybody will come to the table. Anything . Melissa i agree 100 . I got nothing. A big announcement from President Trump, the commander in chief has revealed that he is
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